Group Holds Toy Gun “Turn-In” for Kids Who Received Them As Christmas Gifts

On Dec. 21 in Hempstead, New York, children were offered an exchange of toys: their toy guns for different, “better” toys, according to Breitbart.

The turn-in was headed by a man named Jean Shafiroff, a so-called “philanthropist” who believed that toy guns in the hands of children were something undesirable.

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“I wanted children to know toy guns are not good toys … By exchanging them for a much better gift, it shows a toy gun is not worth having,” Shafiroff told Newsday, according to the NRA Institute for Legislative Action.

But there was a huge problem with the toy guns collected by this philanthropist and his collaborators: The majority of “guns” collected were brightly colored, clearly fake guns, like water guns.

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There aren’t a heck of a lot of real guns painted in neon.

The thrust of this effort is obvious, and it’s not that there is a danger presented by fake guns that are created to resemble real guns.

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Mistaken identity with fake guns can lead to tense situations, and those toys have to be treated appropriately.

The real thrust of this is that all guns are bad, and that if you will just dispose of your guns, you will feel better.

Regardless, the NRA-ILA wasn’t worried.

“Toy gun turn-ins have been around for decades and have become part of the year-round ideological attack on harmless fun,” the website said. “We suspect that toy gun turn-ins are about as effective in achieving their goals as the gun turn-ins that inspire them.”

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